12 Youths(A) oppress my people,
    women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;(B)
    they turn you from the path.

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15 the elders(A) and dignitaries(B) are the head,
    the prophets(C) who teach lies(D) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(E) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.(F)

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14 Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies(A) in my name. I have not sent(B) them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions,(C) divinations,(D) idolatries[a] and the delusions of their own minds. 15 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish(E) by sword and famine.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:14 Or visions, worthless divinations

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